How to efficiently see more than 1 million historical materials released free of charge by the British Museum

The British Museum in London, England, gathered more than 1 million images of documents from the 17th century to the 19th centuryPublic to Flickr as public domainDid. Among the enormous images, various types of materials such as maps, illustrations, and satire images are included, but from among them, only relatively small images such as books are selected and disclosed together with details of the tumblr Account has appeared.

The Mechanical Curator
http://mechanicalcurator.tumblr.com/

When opening the URL of The Mechanical Curator, images are lined up vertically. The following is an illustration of a novel called "A Troublesome Girl" written by Molly Bawn published in 1889. Below the image details such as "author", "page on which illustrations are published", "publication year", "place", "publisher" etc. are written. Click "View all the images from this book" below the document details ......


The page of Flickr will be opened that summarizes only the illustrations posted on A Troublesome Girl.


The Mechanical Curator scrolls down the screen, images are read one by one, and intellectual curiosity gets tickled even if you are staring at only this thoroughly. The following image is one from the book "Bond Slaves. The story of a struggle" published in 1893.


In addition, the British Museum which exposes the image itself classifies images collected by The Mechanical Curator by category, and each album is released on Flickr. For example, "Architecture, found by the community from the Mechanical Curator Collection"Is an album that collects only images related to buildings, and there are 1994 images at the time of article creation.


"Book Covers found by the community from the Mechanical Curator Collection"Is an album that collects only the image of the cover of the book.


The only thing that brought together the images of the bicycle was "Cycling, found by the community from the Mechanical Curator Collection"Collection.


I can not see bicycles that old people used for bicycle lovers.

ByThe British Library

We gathered only illustrations for children's books "Children's Book Illustration, found by the community from the Mechanical Curator CollectionThere was also an album called.


We gathered only old advertisementsAdvertisements, found by the community from the Mechanical Curator CollectionThat's fun.


The album categorized from The Mechanical Curator is the British Museum'sAlbum pageIt is summarized in the image, and it sometimes says that "When time has noticed, time has passed" only by looking at images, so please enjoy them slowly when there is time.

The British Library's albums | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/albums/with/72157640537276514